This is an interesting lace - thank you for putting up the photo. I agree with you that it is a nice little design. It doesn’t look like what I would expect from the description in Caulfield’s Dictionary of Needlework - the pattern isn’t poor, it’s not geometrical, and not filled with thick stitches. It does look like the lacemaker has just substituted a chenille thread for the usual smooth gimp - if a smooth gimp were used then it would look to me very like the samples in the Ipswich lace book.
Adele West Vancouver, BC (west coast of Canada) > > If anyone is interested I have added a second picture to my flickr page of > another sample from the same collection. > On the reverse the lace is identified as 'Old French Chenille Blonde'. > According to Caulfield's Dictionary of Needlework Chenille Lace is "A > peculiar kind of Lace made during the eighteenth century in France. The > ground of this lace was silk honeycomb Reseau; the patterns were poor, and > chiefly geometrical, filled with thick stitches, and outlined with fine white > Chenille." Actually I think it is quite a nice little design. I seem to > recall it is mentioned in the book by Mrs Palliser but my copy escapes me at > the moment. > - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
